Writing a Diversity Statement Workshop April 12th
Posted by Rhett McDaniel on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 in diversity, Events, graduate students, Inclusive Teaching, Teaching Workshops.
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The CFT has partnered with The Office of Inclusive Excellence and The Office for Career Development at The Graduate School to provide an introductory workshop on developing a written diversity statement. Increasingly, universities and colleges are requesting that faculty job applicants provide a statement addressing how they plan to contribute to inclusive excellence in their professional lives.
Sometimes, a job ad will request that applicants address diversity in the cover letter or the teaching statement, but a request for a stand-alone diversity statement is becoming more common. From the perspective of the university, the purpose of this document is to verify that an applicant has a commitment to diversity in his or her work within higher education, including scholarship, teaching, service, mentoring, and advising. From the applicant’s perspective, a diversity statement offers an opportunity to articulate the many ways one may contribute to inclusive and just research, teaching, and service; and the challenges to this work that one may help academic institutions overcome.
This session will introduce several approaches to developing and writing a diversity statement and give participants an opportunity to begin generating ideas on their own and in small groups.
Facilitators:
Sara Beck, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow
Joe Bandy, CFT Assistant DirectorQuestion and answer session with:
Ruth Schemmer
Asst. Dean for Graduate Career Development
Melissa Thomas-Hunt
Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence
Date: Thursday, April 12th
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Location: Alumni Hall Room 206
Open to Graduate Students & Postdocs
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